{"id":198,"date":"2005-01-04T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danflies.wordpress.com\/2005\/01\/04\/linux-and-open-source-the-2005-generation"},"modified":"2005-01-04T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T22:41:00","slug":"linux-and-open-source-the-2005-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/linux-and-open-source-the-2005-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux and Open Source: The 2005 Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, I am hearing way too much about Open Source, Free Software, and Linux talk.  Maybe it becuase I&#8217;m a nerd and I&#8217;ve been a Linux user since 1998.  <\/p>\n<p>Nerds ready to declare 2005 (some even 2004) the year Linux has crossed the chasam to main stream users.<\/p>\n<p>well see, but check out the store for yourself:<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/print_article2\/0,2533,a=141552,00.asp\">Linux and Open Source: The 2005 Generation<\/a>: &#8220;Sometimes people don&#8217;t know when a revolution has happened until afterwards. Then, the historians tell us that 2004 was the year that open source started to become computing&#8217;s mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds hard to believe? Well, IDC analyst Al Gillen recently said that &#8216;Linux is no longer a fringe player. Linux is now mainstream.&#8217; He made that observation because IDC&#8217;s research predicts that Linux&#8217;s overall revenue for desktops, servers and packaged software running on Linux will exceed $35 billion by 2008.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, I am hearing way too much about Open Source, Free Software, and Linux talk. Maybe it becuase I&#8217;m a nerd and I&#8217;ve been a Linux user since 1998. Nerds ready to declare 2005 (some even 2004) the year Linux has crossed the chasam to main stream users. well see, but check out the store [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}